Grain-adjuster



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. L. SHAKE.

GRAIN ADJUSTER.

No. 377,216. Patented Jan. 31, 1888.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. LQSHAKE.

GRAIN ADJUSTER.

No. 377,216. Patented Jan. 31, 1888.

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\VILLIAM LUCIAN SHAKE, OF PAXTON, INDIANA.

GRAIN-ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,216, dated January 31, 1888.

Application filed April 9, 1887. Serial No. 234,277. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM LUCIAN SHAKE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Paxton, in the county of Sullivan and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvester Attachments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in harvester attach ments; and it consists in the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my invention with the middle of the forked arm broken away. Fig. 2 is a side View thereof, partly in section and with parts broken away and showing a portion of a harvester; and Fig. 3 is a plan View of Fig. 2, showing the parts completed.

This invention, which is intended to be attached to a grain-board of a self-binding harvester, is designed to prevent the grain from lodging within the space necessarily between the grain conveyer and elevator, which, as is well known, generally results in the clogging of said conveyer and elevator, and necessitating a waste of time and causing no little annoyance to the operator.

In carrying out my invention I employ a supporting-bracket, A, composed of two similar arms or members secured by ordinary means to the inner side of the grain board A, and in apertures in the lower horizontal arms of the brackets, near the forward ends thereof, are pivotally secured the ends of a pivoted crossbar, a, provided with apertures a, as shown. In rear of this pivoted crossbar is secured, on the upper surface of the said horizontal arms of the brackets A, a second rigid cross-bar, a, the purpose of which will soon appear.

B is a long arm or bar having an upwardlycurved forward forked end, I), and the rear or outer portion of said arm is flattened and apertured, as shown, and through any one of said apertures and a corresponding aperture of the pivoted bar a is passed a nutted bolt, 1),

whereby the position of the arm or bar B can be adjusted eitherlongitndinally or transversely its length, and rigidly held at the point where so adjusted. At whatever point adjusted, the upper surface of the inner end of the bar or arm rests against the under side of the cross-bar a, whereby the bar is caused to occupy a horizontal position.

The above-described device is attached to the grain-board A about midway and just above the conveyer O, with the forked bar extending across the conveyer, with its curved points turned upward, so as to permit the points of the forked end thereof to touch the wooden slats on the grain-elevator D. At the point where the grain passes from the conveyer O to the elevator D there is always a small space to allow the free and unobstructed passage of the slats of said elevator, and it is well known that into this opening or space the grain frequently falls and clogs the elevator; but by means of my invention the grain, after being cut, falls on the forked arm or bar, and the butts and heads being heavier than the stalks the grain sags over the bar, and upon coming-in contact with the conveyer O is carried over the arm or bar to the elevator D, a considerable part of the weight of the grain being thus supported by said arm or bar, and said grain is prevented, by means of the forked end of the arm or bar B, from falling into the opening between said conveyer and elevator.

The transverse adj ustability of the arm or bar renders it capable of use for long, medium, or'short grain, while the means for effecting a longitudinal adjustment of said bar renders the same applicable to binders having different-sized conveyors over which said bar is designed to project.

Among the many advantages of my invention it may be noted that it is the means of a great saving of the grain, and serves to protect the conveyer in supporting the weight of said grain in its passage over the conveyer to the elevator.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the conveyer, elevator, and grain-board, and the bracket attached to the latter, of the forked bar, the apertured pivoted bar on the braoket, and the In testimony whereof I affix my signature in nutted bolt, said forked bar being apertured presence of two witnesses. to permit of its adjustment, the forked bar extending over the conveyer and its forked end WVILLIAMV LUGIAS SHAKE 5 extending over the aperture between the con- Witnesses:

veyer and elevator, substantially as and for the JAMES P. WALLs,

purpose set forth. T. M. ROBBINS. 

